Outside the Beltway

Two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, nearly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of legal marriage rights for gay and lesbian Americans.

Soon visitors to the White House will be able to see Donald Trump’s “yuge” election win on display for all to see.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals heard argument yesterday in the appeal of an order barring travel from six Muslim countries, and it didn’t appear to go well for the attorneys defending the ban.

As expected, Senate Republicans invoked the so-called ‘nuclear option’ to move the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch forward to a final vote on Friday.

Two more losses for the Trump Administration.

South Korea removes a corrupt leader by peaceful means.

Hawaii is the first state to challenge the Trump Administration’s revised Muslim travel ban.

Travel industry experts are reporting a noticeable drop in international travel and tourism since Donald Trump was elected President.

Independent of the current controversy surrounding President Trump’s immigration order, Republicans in Congress are looking at a plan to break up the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

While hardly the most compelling argument against an archaic institution, yesterday’s silliness was noteworthy.

A look at the Electoral College shows that It is far more likely that Hillary Clinton will win the election than that Donald Trump will.

Donald Trump appears to be pushing voters from America’s fastest growing minority group into the Democratic camp.

A golf legend passes away.

Donald Trump’s campaign is apparently finally acknowledging reality, although its claim that birtherism originated with the Clinton campaign in 2008 does not comport with the facts.

The “independent conservative” running for President is finding it hard to even get on the ballot.

Remember Peak Oil? Whatever happened to that idea?

A New Jersey judge, along with a Judge in Pennsylvania, is among the first to rule on the meaning of the ‘natural born citizen’ clause.

Bernie Sanders pulled off another win, but it puts him no closer to having a realistic chance of winning the nomination.

Bernie Sanders swept the Western Caucuses on Saturday, but Hillary Clinton remains in control in the delegate count.

As expected, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both scored big wins in Arizona, while Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders both continued to win caucus states.

Another big night for Donald Trump puts him another step closer to being the presumptive GOP nominee.

It seems increasingly apparent that the only way to stop Donald Trump now is by trying to force a contested convention. It also seems clear that such a plan probably wouldn’t succeed.

Can anything restrain the North Koreans besides direct action by China? That’s unclear, but the new round of sanctions pending at the U.N. seem unlikely to accomplish much of anything.

Donald Trump is trolling the depths of the Internet’s conspiracy dungeons once again. This time to raise the largely absurd argument that Marco Rubio may not be eligible to serve as President.

Delaware has become the latest state to liberalize its laws regarding marijuana.

North Korea’s mercurial leader now claims to have thermonuclear weapons, but analysts are saying this is likely braggadocios nonsense.

Ben Carson and his supporters would have you believe that he is being subjected to unprecedented and unfair scrutiny. That assertion is completely false.

The Oh, The Huma Inanity! Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.

The 2016 election will be fought on a very small battlefield, and right now the makeup of that battlefield heavily favors the Democrats.

The longer this race goes on, the hard it becomes to deny the truth about Donald Trump.

Jason Kottke points me to Stan Carey’s summary of Jack Grieve’s study of regional variations in swearing patterns across the United States.

Donald Trump says he still doesn’t know where the President was born, but he’d rather not talk about that anymore.

If you’re under 21 in Hawaii, you’re still technically an adult but you can’t buy tobacco.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling whose roots can be found in case law going back half a century.

The latest Census data show a changing America.

Some Republicans are trying to move their party in the right direction on marriage equality, but it’s unclear if they will succeed in the short term.

Just in case there’s any question, yes, Ted Cruz is Constitutionally eligible to serve as President.

While the battle for the Senate remains up in the air, the Republican majority in the House remains secure.

Third-party candidates in several states could end up having a big say in the battle for control of the Senate.

Trouble in paradise for two of Hawaii’s top Democrats?

Another Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on the marriage equality debate.